Amphitrite

Tracking Amphitrite

About Amphitrite

The Story Behind the Name: My name is James Martinez. My aunt and uncle adopted a shark for me for my First Communion, and I was excited because I love animals. I went on the internet did a lot of reading, and decided that my three favorite species were goblin sharks, hammerheads, and bull sharks. My parents and my brother, Gabe, and I travelled from Atlanta down to Florida to go on a shark tagging expedition. The day we went out, we baited dozens of bouys, and although we tagged and released many sharks during the day, it wasn’t until we checked the very last buoy on our way back to port that we found and tagged my shark. She is a great lady, and so I decided to name her after the goddess of the sea, Amphitrite.

Satellite Tagging: Amphitrite was carefully tagged
with the latest in satellite tag technology providing us with
the first opportunity to follow the long term movements of these
threatened species. Please keep checking back frequently
to follow Amphitrite’s movements, which will be updated every few
days as her satellite tag continues to send us real-time tracking
data.

Adopt-a-Shark: For information on how you can contribute to our
shark conservation research by adopting and tracking your own
shark, please visit our
Adopt a Shark page.

System Requirements

Google Maps renders in all modern browsers and mobile operating systems. For more details visit Google’s map support page to view detailed system requirements.

Instructions

To animate our interactive shark tracking, play with the time slider tool in the map upper-left. Simply, go to the slider & separate the bottom left & right tabs by ~1/4”. Then click on the leading tab & drag it across the slider; or click play to automatically view tracks.